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From: les@kitc.UUCP (Les Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Satellite deployal and bad-weather launch
Message-ID: <182@kitc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 20:08:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: kitc.182
Posted: Fri Aug 30 20:08:28 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 21:44:13 EDT
References: <1077@brl-tgr.ARPA> <4241@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@kitc.UUCP (Les Johnson)
Organization: AT&T-IS Labs, So. Plainfield NJ
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Keywords: wet tiles
Summary: 

In article <4241@alice.UUCP> alb@alice.UucP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) writes:
>If launched in a rainstorm, that water would be carried
>into orbit (1) making the craft heavier and placing it in a lower
>orbit than planned and (2) the water would freeze in space and
>then melt again during reentry; 

Wouldn't the ice boil off in the (relative) vacuum of space? 
Freeze dried tiles! :-)

Les Johnson @ kitc!les